Chapter 993: Nomination, Development, and Invitation

"The State Legislature should also join in."

Governor Terry said this after careful consideration.

Although the State Legislature is essentially subordinate to the Governor, they do indeed have their own irreplaceable work and content.

They cannot be on par with the President like Congress, but they are the only ones who can do what they do.

And the Governor is always changing, but the seats in the State Legislature don't change much.

The Speaker of the House and the President of the Senate have both been re-elected for eight years and ten years respectively, and they will continue to be re-elected until the next successor recognized by everyone appears; only then will they "sadly" leave their current work.

Of course, this "sadness" is all performed for the voters to see; after all, they are truly voting.

From a short-term perspective, in the next four or six years, it is unlikely that the two speakers of the State Legislature will leave their positions.

At the same time, the forces they represent behind them will not collapse because of their departure; on the contrary, after the new successor takes office, they will continue to consolidate this force.

Listening to what Governor Terry said, Lans still had some small feelings in his heart.

People all say the Federation is a country full of freedom, as if every place here is permeated with the fragrance and sweetness of freedom.

What power comes from the people—it sounds like it, looks like it, as if it's really like this. People cast their votes for the politicians they think are suitable, and then these people become government officials to rule them.

But in reality, everyone who participated in this game knows what this is all about.

A ridiculous "political scam," just like right now, people think that the job transfers in the State Legislature should have something to do with the voters.

After Governor Terry finished speaking, he looked at Lans. Lans nodded. "That's fine. The State Legislature relates to the legislative issues of local laws. We need to firmly control the State Legislature, at least not let it get out of control."

This means adding the two speakers, and the number of people starts to increase.

Mayor Williams continued, "It can't be all politicians. This doesn't fit the development and prospects of an interest group. We also need to absorb some capital."

Capital is like butter at this time, playing a lubricating role. And with capital, the transfer of interests will be more complete, and the unity of the entire interest group will be tighter.

Lans didn't object either. "You can pick some and ask for their opinions. If they don't object to 'teaming up' with us, then pull them in."

This "teaming up" should actually mean "party," but party is too... serious, so calling it teaming up is obviously more appropriate.

Mayor Williams and Governor Terry both understood his meaning, and so did William.

Afterward, Lans said pointedly, "Actually, we don't need too many local forces to join. Once any such political group is created, power will permeate from top to bottom, even if we don't arrange these peripheral members in various places."

"They will also gradually fill into this framework as our organizational structure gradually improves."

"We also need some solid and reliable 'locals'!" He said, looking at the three old men. "Like the Lawrence family."

"Our control over Likai State is not just controlling it from the underground world, government, capital, and market; we also need greater social influence."

Mayor Williams suddenly said, "Maybe we can chat with Governor Wei De. The Wei De family is also a prominent family in Likai State. Although they have moved away, the roots won't be completely cut just because their main members aren't here."

"We can annex or absorb a part of their remaining forces to increase our own chips."

When he mentioned the title "Governor Wei De," he was clearly a bit jealous and envious. The gubernatorial election results for every state in the Federation had already been publicized, and there were no exceptions in any state.

According to the relevant act of the federal gubernatorial election, as long as the governor doesn't suddenly die or get assassinated after winning the election, the results must come out before the Saint Agriculture Festival to avoid the election affecting the Saint Agriculture Festival.

From this, we can see how high the status of the Saint Agriculture Festival is in the hearts of federal people—

There is actually a joke here that isn't very funny. Among the dark-skinned people, there is a part of extreme dark-skinned people who call the Saint Agriculture Festival the "Passion Festival" and publicly express their refusal to celebrate the Saint Agriculture Festival.

They will gather to demonstrate on the day of the Saint Agriculture Festival, and the reason is that when slavery hadn't been abolished, the Saint Agriculture Festival was the biggest slave trading festival.

A large number of slaves captured would be sold on this day, and at the same time, farm owners would also arrange for strong slaves on their farms to please them at the cost of their lives.

Arranging for slaves to fight, fight beasts, or let them do some very strenuous work, like strongmen or something.

The white devils of the Federation were all laughing out loud, and only these dark-skinned people were suffering in pain. They believed they should remember this date, as well as the deep, indelible pain this day brought to their ancestors!

The protests of these dark-skinned people were ultimately just a part, and their protests couldn't shake the arrangements of the entire federal festival.

As one of the three biggest farm owners in Likai State and also a slave owner, the Wei De family left a lot of resources here.

Their members leaving doesn't mean these resources can be taken away by them. Now these resources are clearly in a state of "ownerless."

They don't belong to anyone, they belong to themselves. If we can eat this part of the resources through Governor Wei De, it is also a supplement and benefit to us.

Lans thought for a while and felt there was no problem with this proposal. "I will talk to Governor Wei De."

When the election results came out, he had already made a call to Governor Wei De, and they agreed to meet in early November.

After Governor Wei De won the election, it meant that many of Lans's projects could be promoted in Denuozhou. His goal was to completely control the liquor market and underground world of Denuozhou within six months, and then further advance to the South Yalan State to prepare for Christopher next.

Afterward, they each supplemented some topics and nominated some candidates. Although the three old men didn't say much, William's opinion was their opinion.

"We plan to form the Lawrence Commercial Group," William took the initiative to talk about this, and everyone else's attention was focused over.

They wouldn't look down on him just because William was just a mayor of an inconspicuous small city. After all, his daughter was Lans's wife!

And the Lawrence farm's impression in Likai State is indeed extraordinary. If they lose them, it will be a heavy blow to the entire interest group.

On the contrary, having the votes and control of the Lawrence farm can play a stabilizing role for the entire group.

In William's description, now as the Lawrence farm becomes richer and richer, the three old men are also constantly expanding the scale of the farm and making it bigger.

They are annexing small farms around them, and at the same time, more distant small farms will also attach themselves to the Lawrence farm, forming their vassals.

This is a huge economic system. Perhaps in the eyes of many people, this is just producing some food and livestock, but these things are enough to have a huge impact on the food prices of Likai State.

Not to mention there are countless people working for them.

In the past, the Lawrence farm only had some agricultural product supermarkets in the surrounding cities. They put their things in these supermarkets of their own brand for sale, which is also a local old brand in Likai State.

But as their scale gets bigger and bigger now, some people in the family think they should also establish a more perfect and complete group company to stably develop the family's commercial content.

This is a problem that almost every family needs to face in the process of development and growth, starting from a makeshift team to group-based and standardized development.

William and the others have clearly done a lot of planning and research and have a clear direction.

Lans didn't object to this either. "If there is any need, you can tell me."

"Whether it's in terms of funds or other aspects, there is no problem."

The three old men's faces smiled into wrinkles. This is also what they care about most now. After all, the winery is Lans's, not entirely their own. If one day the winery's profits drop, or Lans doesn't produce these liquors here, then their profits will drop rapidly, and they will return to the days of the past.

People who have made big money find it hard to go back to the days of making small money, so they discussed it and took this opportunity to let the entire Lawrence family thoroughly embark on the path of standardized development.

Several people subsequently supplemented some candidates. These candidates were all local political dignitaries or celebrities in Likai State, or relatively well-known capitalists.

This negotiation lasted until the evening.

In the evening, the Lawrence farm held a grand bonfire party as usual. Cowboys and farmers from around gathered here, and everyone's face had a smile from the heart.

Since the situation of the Lawrence farm started to get better, their lives have also undergone huge changes.

In the past, after they finished planting their own crops and feeding their own livestock, they could only go to nearby towns to find some temporary work to do.

These jobs were not only unstable, but the income wouldn't be very high.

The life of a farmer is actually not as good as those people in the city imagine. Those city people think life in the countryside is very beautiful, mainly because they have brought in the life of those big farm owners, not the life of ordinary farms.

Farming, raising livestock, dealing with cow dung—these things are not only not romantic, but they also can't make any money.

But as the Lawrence farm started to become rich, the lives of these nearby farmers and farm owners underwent huge changes.

Many of them directly transferred their farms and farmsteads to the Lawrence family, and then they worked for the Lawrence family on the farm.

Whether it's planting or raising livestock, they are doing the work they were originally supposed to do. Now not only can they eat for free, but they don't need to spend their own money when they are injured or sick, and there is an income at the end of the month.

No wonder when the federal president announced the abolition of slavery, some slaves showed a look of despair—the iron rice bowl was gone.

After slavery ended, they had to prepare their own clothes, prepare their own food, and spend their own money to see a doctor when they were injured or sick. Most importantly, they might also be unemployed.

In the slavery period, this was simply impossible!

They felt they had been set up by capital!

Now on the Lawrence family's farm, some people enjoy the benefits that only slavery had.

If someone in the family becomes a cowboy on the farm, the income is even higher.

Especially those cowboys carrying guns, their monthly income is as much as seventy or eighty dollars, and some particularly elite old cowboys have incomes exceeding one hundred dollars.

The huge profits brought by liquor changed not only everything about the Lawrence family, but also changed the people living around, and radiated to more people.

This is the influence of big families, big enterprises, and big factories in this period of the Federation on the local social environment!

Once these big families have some changes, it often means that at least thousands or tens of thousands of people will lose their jobs in a short time.

In order to ensure that their rice bowls won't be smashed because of certain things of the big family, these people will actively support these big families.

Sometimes people will find some very strange things, especially in this period.

After some factories go bankrupt and need to be liquidated, the workers in the factory will take tools to stop those people from entering the factory, and sometimes they will hurt people.

In the eyes of some people, these exploited and oppressed people actually started to empathize with the people who exploited and oppressed them. They often feel that they have no future and are natural human mines.

But in reality, if they lose this job, especially during the depression, it may mean that the fate of their whole family will undergo huge changes.

So whether it's the workers in the city or the farmers here, they all know how to protect their lives.

Those farmers carried baskets in their hands, filled with the food and fruits they considered most delicious, as well as meat products like ham.

They would very enthusiastically walk to the side of these visitors, and then take out the food they considered best from their baskets and hand them to these people.

As long as you don't worry about the hygiene of these foods, you can eat all kinds of delicacies here.

For Governor Terry, Mayor Williams, and James who have lived in the city for a long time, this is full of things they haven't been in contact with before!

Mayor Williams sat beside old man Herbert. He looked at the people singing and dancing by the bonfire and said with some emotion, "I haven't seen such a scene for a long time, ever since the Williams family donated the land to the Federation."

Actually, Mayor Williams hadn't seen any big farms when he was a child. At that time, most of their land had become cities under development, leaving only a small part of the farm on the west side of Jincheng.

Later, their main energy was placed on managing the city, and those farms naturally merged into Jincheng as some political chips.

It can be said that the current Jincheng is built on the basis of the Williams family's farm, and of course, a small part is the Wei De family's farm.

When the Wei De family hadn't left Jincheng, their status was slightly higher than the Williams family. It wasn't based on whose farm the city occupied more, but because the Wei De farm was much larger than the Williams farm in the past!

In its heyday, it is said that there were more than twenty thousand slaves engaged in farm work and production in factories on the Wei De farm, but when slavery was finally abolished, they only found more than fifteen thousand slaves.

This is also why the Williams family has always been a famous family in Jincheng; after all, it's their land!

When people get old, they always miss some things from the past. For Mayor Williams, perhaps the carefree life on the farm when he was a child was the happiest time of his life.

Seeing the smiles of the people here reflected by the bonfire today, he also thought of the happy life when he was a child.

"After I retire in two years, I might find a piece of land again and build a farm myself."

Herbert took the initiative to invite, "How boring is it for you to live alone?"

"If I'm not mistaken, your son James must inherit those things you have in the city. I don't know your younger son very well, so it's hard to make a judgment."

"As for your brothers, sisters, or other relatives, I think they hope more that they can live in the city."

Mayor Williams nodded. "Although I don't want to admit it, what you said is not wrong at all."

This is perhaps some changes brought about by wealth. People are no longer willing to suffer in the countryside. They are more willing to obtain better living conditions and environment, which is living in the rich area of the city.

Herbert continued, "Then you might as well move over and live with us!"

"If you are willing to do some farm work, I can let them find a piece of land for you. No matter what you want to do, there is no problem."

"If you don't intend to do farm work, just want to enjoy life in the countryside, there is no problem."

"We have two hunting activities every year. During the usual holidays, just like now, you see, people will participate in the bonfire party here."

"I guarantee you won't have any burden here!"

"You can raise a horse of your own, then ride it to hunt, or just go around."

"When you feel it's too boring here, you can also go back to the city."

"Lans built a railway next to it. Now it's very convenient for us to go to the city!"

Mayor Williams was a bit tempted. This is perhaps the pastoral life he yearns for.

"Thank you for your invitation. I will seriously consider it." ===== CHAPTER 994 =====